NYTimes Decries GOP ‘Demonizing’ Refugees, But ‘Soaring’ Biden Called GOP Jim Crow

The New York Times knows the Democrats are in trouble, and they’re getting frantic. A front-page story on Friday, “G.O.P. Memo Shows Plan to Attack Democrats on Immigration,” was based on a leaked document distributed to House Republicans. The reporters seized on it to play defense attorney for the Democrats, trying to refute every piece of the memo on the party’s behalf.

Reporters Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater tried to squelch the “misleading…talking points” of Republicans — without actually detailing the “misleading” parts. They were concerned that the document would offend the feelings of illegal immigrants.

This detailed guide is 60 pages long Note contains provocative and misleading talking points, which aim to paint migrants and refugees perpetrators in some gruesome crimes, Particularly those that involve sexual assault echo the demeaning language used by former President Donald J. Trump to refer to immigrants.Also, it argues the Biden administration was lax about illegal immigration. This is a tactic to push Democrats onto the defensive.

It comes as Democrats are growing increasingly concerned that President Biden’s immigration policies, including the recent decision to lift pandemic-era border restrictions next month, could pose a political liability for them ahead of the midterm elections.

The memo — which is marked “CONFIDENTIAL — FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY” — repeatedly insinuates that immigrants could be sex offenders, highlighting a handful of arrests at the southwestern border and of Afghan evacuees. The Biden Administration policy of humanely enforcing immigration laws is also misrepresented in this document. This policy would ban law enforcement officers from sex-offenders within close proximity to schoolyards.

They apparently mean this Department of Homeland Security guidance that, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, declares that federal law enforcement is largely prohibited from conducting immigration enforcement near certain locations, including near any “place where children gather” such as a playground or recreational center. 

The reporters fretted about Republicans instilling “fear” into the electorate – a bit like what the TimesHave you been involved with COVID over two years?

Republicans continued to debate an issue that instills terror,But it has the additional appeal of creating division within the Democratic Party. According to Mr. Jordan’s memo, he plans to accuse the administration of prioritizing “illegal aliens over American citizens” by ending Title 42.

Karni Broadwater and Broadwater couldn’t make clear distinctions between war refugees flying into Ukraine from Syria and people who have crossed the border to the south.

But Mr. Jordan’s document shows why such discussions have gone nowhere in Congress. It suggests that just months after Republicans joined Democrats in pushing for legislation to help rush to the United States thousands of Afghans who were facing retribution for having helped American troops, G.O.P. is demonizing such refugees.

Before chastising Republicans for “demonizing” refugees, the paper sympathized with Democrats for its failed push for “democracy” in voting on Thursday’s front page. Reporters Reid Epstein and Jonathan Weisman reported under the petulant headline “If Democracy’s in Trouble, Why Don’t Democrats Run on the Issue?” Showing their inability to be offended by even the most extreme Democratic rhetoric, they characterized a particularly noxious Biden statement as “soaring” rhetoric.

Who’s “demonizing” who, again?

Some Democrats have tried to make voting rights a leading issue in the United States….In January, as Mr. Biden pushed for the same goal, he gave a soaring speech in Atlanta comparing today’s Republicans to George Wallace and Bull Connor, villains of the civil rights era.

It is so motivating to call your political enemies violent racists.